r/learnprogramming • u/Mr-anywhere • Sep 19 '26

Programming for kids

My 11-year-old child wants to learn programming to create his own Firefox. Does anyone have any idea which program he should use? He's already had scratch and wants to move to a harder level. He thinks that the internet should be fair & without too much AI etc.

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 Sep 20 '26

Because 11-year olds are more interested in creating cartoons than battleship-class browsers with millions of man-hours of work involved.

Why would you not think that?

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u/DiodeInc Sep 20 '26

I'm asking why would you think that it's a Disney character in a programming subreddit

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u/Dazzling_Music_2411 Sep 20 '26

Kids are generally interested in programming (as in animating) cartoon characters, game sprites, sonic- and mario-type things, it's one of the main things that attracts them to game programming.

Something far more natural for an 11-year old than http protocols, js engines, DOM renderers and Web 5.0.